Mets outfielder Starling Marte has been diagnosed with a partial non-displaced fracture of the middle finger on his right hand, the team informed reporters (including Steve Gelbs of SNY). The club currently considers him day-to-day, although it remains to be seen if he’ll eventually require a stint on the injured list.
Marte suffered the injury last night, when he was hit on the hand by a 96 MPH fastball from Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller. He came out of the game a couple innings later, and he sat out today’s doubleheader. The Mets haven’t provided a timetable as to when they expect Marte to be ready for game action, although it’s seemingly encouraging they’re not immediately placing him on the injured list. The expansion of active rosters in September from 26 to 28 players gives the Mets a bit more leeway to give Marte a few days, particularly with an off day tomorrow to reassess his condition.
Signed to a four-year, $78MM deal over the winter, Marte has had an All-Star first season in Queens. He’s hitting .292/.347/.468 through 505 trips to the plate, on par with the best offensive seasons of his career. The star outfielder has connected on 16 homers, 24 doubles and five triples. He’s chipped in 18 stolen bases (albeit with nine caught stealings) and served as the club’s primary right fielder and #2 hitter.
The Mets turned to Tyler Naquin in right field today, and he’d presumably pick up the majority of playing time if Marte’s forced out of action. The lefty-hitting Naquin can split time with the right-handed Darin Ruf in the corner opposite Mark Canha, with Brandon Nimmo continuing to man center field.
New York has been hit with a couple notable injury situations in recent days. They placed Max Scherzer on the 15-day injured list with side fatigue this morning. At 87-51, the Mets are a lock to make the playoffs, but they’re in a tight NL East battle with the defending World Series champions. New York holds a half-game lead on the Braves in a race for the division title and accompanying first-round bye.
The inevitable Mets collapse continues.
They’re going to win 100 games. Hardly a collapse.
There goes that ringworm again. Mask up.
Hate to see that hes gone through a lot the last few years
A lot of broken fingers this season…
The Mets are crapping out!
Yes, they just won a doubleheader —> 5-1 and 10-0.
Roster wise
Beat the Pirates- congratueffinglations.
Gee……
When the Pirates beat them the other day that sure counted.
LOL
The score matters less due to the strength of competition. 10-0 last night (I was there) was depressing. My friend pointed out that the Crawfords and Grays of old must be rolling in their graves with how bad of baseball is being played in their city
It’s the Pirates, who cares?
I think the standings care
Pirates have a winning record against the Dodgers this year.
I bet the Braves care
Wow. You’re good at this.
Losing scherzer and marte,,? Are you mocking me?
Honestly hope he is fully healthy when they come play Braves in Atlanta.
Going to be an awesome series.
Let’s hope that it’s not too serious and that Marte will be back in time for the playoffs.
Keller should be immediately suspended and remain so for the same length of time that Marte is unable to compete at the MLB level. It is long past the time to discipline both the team and pitcher who hits and injures a batter on the opposing team. The nature of damage to the team whose batter is injured without corresponding loss on the other team is just a plain inequity. As far as comments about injury sustained from a pitched ball being “just part of the game’ is antiquated lunacy.
Intentionally hitting a batter is one thing. Hitting a batter on accident is quite another.
Intent is a component, sure.
Personally I’d have escalating suspensions for any pitcher who hits a batter in the head regardless of “intent.”
Intent is irrelevant.
Point is the hit batter’s team loses a player to injury..
The pitcher and his team = NO CONSEQUENCES..
This inequity needs to be eliminated by imposing a penalty against the pitcher’s team.
In the words of my pal BlueSkiesLA, I am not going to “feed the trolls.”
He got hit in the hand, not the upper body. Take it easy
Lyman my man, I don’t know whom your comment was in response to. To clarify, however, my comment was in regards to the above poster who stated that pitchers should be suspended if they hit a batter PERIOD…..As I said, a batter hit on purpose is not the same scenario as a batter hit on accident.
It was to Jacksson13, my apologies for not being clear on that. I agree with you 100% and I disagreed with his comment, and thought it made no sense at all.
No problemo my friend. Relatively new to these message boards and still trying to figure out how the order the comments show up etc..
TrumboJumbo;
Youi are a terrific, knowledgeable, and mature poster. Hope you stick around.
Sam The Man, appreciate the nice words. I’ve read enough of your posts to where I can say the same for you. I try to comment on posts and or topics that catch my interest. I thoroughly enjoy coming across like minded posters/fans and even seeing new takes/philosophies/points that others make that I hadn’t thought of. I like a good debate as much as anyone but definitely do not come for that. I’ve been around the game for a while but it runs in my family all the way back to Doubleday practically and I gotta say I am “old school” if nothing else when it comes to the game. Being a Halo fan has taught me patience and how to be more accepting haha. I hated the Dodgers guts since birth but the past few years I have been looking after my Step Dad who is a big o’l Dodger fan from way back and I have come to be a fan as well…I like so many of their players now and enjoy seeing some of the awesome personalities they have. Don’t see it happening with the Yanks or Houston anytime soon but hey anything is possible haha.
TrumboJumbo;
FYI:
Have lived in different areas of the county. Spent 25 years in LA county. Learned a lot from watching Lasorda’s Dodgers. When the O’Mally’s sold the franchise to the corporation they immediately ripped down what Branch Rickey had set up post-WWII. Mike Scioscia was managing in AA being groomed to replace Lasorda when he retired. Two suits went down and fired him after a night game. Angels immediately picked him up, and he became their manager the following season (I remember him guaranteeing ticket holders that if they saw the team wasn’t hustling he personally would refund their money – LOL). Mike turned them into a what at the time was a National League team playing in the AL. Disney left him and Bill Stoneman alone to run Baseball Ops. Than Arte bought the franchise.
Who knows what the future will bring?
Two suits giving Scioscia the axe during a night game hahaha That I did not know of. And as far as him offering to reimburse the ticket holders in the event of non-hustling, that is just classic stuff…Love it! That policy should stand with all 30 teams. Nothing irks me more than not hustling!
I would also like to know how the Dodgers inundated themselves presumingly with so much Front Office talent upon McCourt selling. They seem to have all their ducks in a row somehow…Is this something I can expect of the Angels once Arte signs on the dotted line?? The Dodgers did a complete 180. I’m just trying to envision a reality in which the Angels can do the same.
Jacksson13 is in the same vein as NENTWIGS. He generally provides funny takes on names, words and situations. This may be a bit more serious take than others, but I’d still take it with a grain of salt.
This is a serious legitimate commentary on professional baseball.
Care to discuss the lunacy of the sacrifice fly rule?
@TrumboJumbo How? It’s not actually all that difficult if you understand where baseball has gone, if you understand all the edges there are to accumulate, and understand you need a lot, a lot, of very smart people to produce useful analysis.
You also need people with superb skills at combining that analysis in meaningful ways while getting along well with others. How many of those people are there?
Well, just look at who the Mets with Cohen’s fortune have been able to come up with in their FO in two years. Their number is not, shall we say, infinite.
@TrumboJumbo Same. The singles off the wall b/c the hitter stood at the plate admiring his warning track power are particularly egregious.
I’ve always been a “#’s” guy myself so I do indeed understand the various intricacies of the “analytics” side of the game. And I of course agree that “#’s guys” and “people people/superior communicators of such info” are very much a rare intertwining/combo and therefore scarce in the game…I know the Dodgers have a multitude of these individuals….I was wondering still, how the Halo’s can do the same…Where do they find these unicorns? Classifieds?
Jack, yes those are my favorite haha. So cringeworthy and maddening…I see a lot of lazy doubles that are triples all day with some of these guys if they get out of the box hard.
@Jacksson13— Marte has been hit numerous times in his hands over his career……
SO WHAT !!
So it means he has crowded the plate his whole career and making his hands vulnerable to being hit. The pitch was just off the plate inside and because he was swing at that pitch he got hit. Was not intentional in the least.
Agreed.
When you see dumb ash comments like the one stated here by @Jacksson13, you see why many opposing fans ride the Mets and laugh at their annual failures. It’s because of dimwitted Mets fans like him. He’s been listening to too much of the SNY Mets Hyperbole.
I am not a Mets fan
You just ruined his day. Hope you’re happy
@Jacksson13
So you save the dumbest, homerish comment you can come up with and use it for a team that you supposedly don’t root for?
So, essentially your defense is that you’re not a blind homer. You’re just a dumb ash.
I don’t know if too many of us on here would use this defense.
@Bill M
Kind of funny that you’re standing up for someone who’s using the ‘I’m not a blind homer. I’m just a dumb ash’ defense.
Yes it’s REALLY funny. Everyone is laughing
The Tyler Naquin acquisition seems better now that a starting OF is on the shelf.
While Naquin has been hot for the two games he’s replaced Marte, he’s generally been pretty bad at the plate since the Mets got him. Hopefully Marte won’t be gone long. Mets need him for the stretch run
After reading this, I am missing what is a partial non-displaced finger fracture exactly.
Will Marte be able to play through this, hit and play RF, throw, etc.?
What will be the impact on the Mets roster going forward. Does he require surgery or an IL stint for it to heal itself? There are missing elements to this report or perhaps someone can enlighten me here.
No surprise. The Mets are an old team getting a surprising amount of work out of the older and often-injured players they’re playing into the ground, and they just lost 2 of those guys for indefinite periods.
What did you expect? They spent big on frontline players, paid Max TWICE what they would have paid for, say, Robbie Ray and Rodon, combined, have a weak bench, and will have to get very lucky with the likes of Peterson and T Williams from here on out to stay ahead of the Braves (forecast: they won’t, schedule be damned).
The Mets weren’t willing to part with top prospects for top players and this the price they are paying now. You hope your farm system can produce players to replace them.Perhaps its a lesson learned or not.